Roulette Basics - Online Roulette Basics

Roulette is all about making the right predictions, or right betting choices, and there are quite a few! Will I be rich? Will I get married? Will I have lots of children? Ooops that does not seem to fit! Will it be odd or even? Red, black or yellow? 14, 25, or 3? Now, that is more appropriate! The decision is in your hand, but once you are done with it just try to wait in relaxation for the tumultuous silver ball to get himself comfortable in one of the 38 Roulette slots. The outcome will determine either your winning share or your lose! 

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Unlike other casino games, you don't play roulette with regular casino chips. When you give the croupier ("dealer" in French) your cash or casino chips, he will exchange it for "wheel chips," which are solid colored chips used only at that roulette table. You get to pick which color you would like. You also get to decide how much you want those wheel chips to be worth. Give the croupier $100 and tell him you want to play yellow for one dollar, he will give you 100 yellow chips. Tell him purple for five dollars and he will give you 20 purple chips. There will be a sign on the table that tells you what the minimum value is you can assign to the chips.

Since the value is not stamped on the wheel chips other players and spectators do not know if you are playing $5 chips or $500 chips, which can help you slip a little further into the Bond role. This might be a good time to order a martini from the cocktail waitress.

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There are two basic types of roulette bets, inside bets and outside bets. On inside bets you play the numbers directly. The slots on the wheel alternate red and black and are randomly numbered from 1 through 36. There are also two green slots, 0 and 00. That pattern is repeated on the felt tabletop, you make your bets by placing your wheel chips on the number(s) you want to play.

You can play one number or you can play 20 different numbers?it's totally up to you. That little sign near the wheel will also tell you what the minimum bet is. You must bet at least this amount on the inside. If the minimum is $5 and you are playing $1 chips, you can bet $5 on one number or you can bet $1 each on five different numbers. Of course you can bet more.

The reason that every player has different colored chips is so that you can all make the same bets and the croupier will know who has played how much. If you want to play 22, but you see there are already blue chips on that number, just add your yellow chips to the pile, right on top of the blue ones.

If you bet the number that the ball ultimately settles in, you will be paid 35 chips for every one you placed on the number.

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You can split a single chip between 2, 3, 4 or 6 adjacent numbers. If you put it on the line between two numbers you are betting both. A chip placed at the end of a row, sitting half on the first number in the row and half off the end of the row, plays all 3 numbers in the row. A bet placed on the cross in the center of any four numbers that form a square, play them all. If you place it on the "T" where two adjacent rows end, you play all six numbers in the two rows.

A bet split two ways pays: 17 to 1
A bet split three ways pays: 11 to 1
A bet split four ways pays: 8 to 1
A bet split six ways pays: 5 to 1
You can see the more ways you split the chip, the payoffs get slightly lower. However, the odds remain the same. That may not sound right, but the reason is that you keep your winning bet. If you put one dollar on each of two numbers and one hits, you win $35. You keep the dollar you bet on the winner and lose the dollar you bet on the loser, so you wind up with $36. If you split a $2 bet between two numbers and one of them hits you win 17 times your bet, $34 and your keep the entire original $2 bet, so again you wind up with $36.

There is only one way to split a bet where this doesn't hold true, it is the only way to split a bet five ways. By placing your chip on the upside down "T" formed at the bottom line of the 0 and 00, this plays both 0s along with 1, 2, and 3. The return on this bet is 6 to 1. So if you bet $5 this way and 00 hit, you would wind $30, keep your original $5 to wind up with $35. If you had bet $1 on each number, you would win $35 and keep the $1 you bet on 00 so you would wind up one dollar ahead of splitting the bet.

Roulette Basics - Outside Bets

To the left and below the numbers layout there are a variety of other bets. You can bet: black or red, odd or even, low (1 to 18) or high (19 to 36). These bets pay even money, bet a dollar and win a dollar. These appear to be 50/50 bets, but because of 0 and 00, the house keeps an advantage.

Outside bets that pay 2 to 1 are: first third (1 to 12), second third (13 to 24), third third (25 to 36), and any of the three columns of numbers.

You can place any combination of outside and inside bets you like. If a ball lands in 0 or 00, all the outside bets lose.